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| 9/20/14 Diamine Chocolate Brown ink, Zig marker, Caran d'Ache Museum water-soluble colored pencil, Canson XL 140 lb. paper (Jim Yun) |
After a week of special events around the downtown area,
local buskers turned out for a grand finale performance this afternoon outside
EMP. Seattle Busker Week was the 40th
anniversary celebration of an ordinance that made busking legal in Seattle. In
1974, busker Jim Page became a local hero when he took on the city prohibition
that made performing in the streets for money illegal.
“Busking is based on the principle that if you can talk, you
can sing,” Page said, giving anyone an opportunity to perform for an audience.
An original song he performed today was a lampoon of Bertha, the expensive tunnel-boring machine which has been stuck
for months.
Ukulele player and singer Jim Yun, a Seattle busker who had
been in Chicago for a while, began his performance by complaining about that Midwest
city’s highly restrictive busking laws. “This is an awesome city for creativity
and creative expression,” Yun said, praising Seattle and its liberal busking policies.
Since I’m a frequent sketcher of buskers at farmers markets
and street fairs, and it’s my personal policy to put money in the hat of any
busker I sketch, it was a surprising change to see today’s buskers performing
without their hats out. But as a celebration of Seattle’s liberal ordinance, it
made sense: They gave back to an appreciative city with a free show.
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| 9/20/14 Pilot Iroshizuku Asa-gao ink, Zig marker (Bob Crosby and Jim Page) |
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| 9/20/14 Pilot Iroshizuku Take-Sumi ink, Zig marker (Katy Keenan) |
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| 9/20/14 Pilot Iroshizuku Asa-gao ink, Zig marker, Museum pencil (didn't catch this guy's name) |
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